Connor Smith

Name: Connor Smith Position: Photo Editor Graduation Year: 2015

When not dropping his camera, scratching his lenses, overheating his batteries, or corrupting his memory card, Connor Smith enjoys taking pictures in a variety of genres, such as Landscapes, Portraits, News, Abstract/Art, and Event.
His work can be viewed at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/90893226@N04/with/15584734837/
And on this lovely page you are currently viewing.

Seniors Andreas Robertson (left) and Ben Holland (right) attempt to figure out what this year's puzzle palooza theme is. Juniors and Seniors can sign up for the event here: http://puzzlepalooza.mbhs.edu/

The winners of the PuzzlePalooza 2014 Iron Puzzler award flaunt their leftover cash. The Iron Puzzler award goes to the team that solved the most puzzles using the least amount of "Puzzle Bucks," which are used to buy hints to the puzzles.

The Group of Death parades up to the stage, carrying Senior Brian Oluwo as if in a coffin. The team won best team name, as the "Group of Death" is the name for the most competitive section of the World Cup bracket.

PuzzlePalooza's theme this year was the World Cup, and thus, for the final puzzle, teams had to assemble a soccer ball by following clues on the pieces of the ball. The puzzle would ultimately tell them to shout "GOAL!"

(From left to right) Andreas Robertson, Connor Smith, Sam Bolgiano, David Pilsk, Noah Elkind, and Grant Tipton pose for a photo before the competition. Their T-Shirts were designed by Michelle Tu. The molecule on the shirt is Thalidomide.

The students participating in the competition had to bring various items to the competition themselves. Included in the box are googles, funnels, copper electrodes, and solutions of Copper Sulfate, Starch, and Potassium Iodate.

Shoppers admire Artist Karl Unnasch's creation, a massive Christmas Tree made of sleds, tennis rackets, sports balls, bats and other toys titled "Playtime Jubilee". The tree will be up on top of the fountain in Downtown Silver Spring until early January 2014, when it will be disassembled and the toys donated to A Wider Circle, a charity organization that will then give the toys to children in need.”